Miggie with a pro tip on Auto Layout — typing in ​“auto” as the spacing value will change the spacing mode from Packed to Space Between.

Molly Hellmuth discusses five major changes to the Auto Layout introduced at Config 2022.

Designers Joel Miller and Oscar Nilsson worked on the new Auto Layout together. In this thread, Joel talks about some of his favorite things about this release.

”We’ve announced some new updates on Auto Layout at Config 2022, including negative spacing, absolute position, and more! In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through what’s new and what’s changed.”

Hosts of the Design Details podcast, Brian Lovin and Marshall Bock, cover all of the exciting new releases from Config 2022 and do a deep dive into the new version of Auto Layout.

Anton Kuznetsov shares two workarounds for creating negative spacing with Auto Layout. The easy way is to use Space Between, but there are some limitations, so Anton offers using a frame as a wrapper.

Dan Hollick shares a few pros and cons of using Spacer components vs. Auto Layout.

Nice concept of what one of the features in Auto Layout 4 may be. I’d definitely love to see this!

A few good tips on using Auto Layout by Danny Sapio.

Molly shares a few takeaways from recreating a responsive Asana dashboard in Figma.

Danny Sapio is showing how Auto Layout can be used to create a scalable and flexible interface.

“Creating components with automated sizing behavior saves a lot of time during the process. They also let us think more like a developer that has to implement the real application. That is why it is essential to master Constraints and Auto Layout in Figma.”

Dennis Cortes goes over his approach to building scalable components in Figma using Variants, Variant Groups, and Auto Layout. This video touches on the basics, from definitions of each feature to more advanced methods of building out different types of variants in Figma.

Mariz brings a great point — the current implementation not only hides the values but also makes you click on another UI control to change them.

Interactive Components (currently in beta) now work with Auto Layout, and that opens doors for some fun interactions.

Danny Sapio shows how to create sliders and loading indicators with Auto Layout.

“In this Figma Tip, we create an Auto Layout chat bubble to be used in FigJam. Chat bubbles outlined in this tip and some additional Auto Layout notecards can be downloaded and reused from a community file.”

New short video from Figma:55 on using Auto Layout and Variants to make a table.

“In previous Auto Layout videos, we showed how to create an Auto Layout component from scratch with the end-product already in mind. But what if you’re still ideating and don’t know what the finished product will look like yet? Designing can be messy and unpredictable. But you can easily add auto layout at any point of this process.”

“How to move and place elements and objects over Auto layout elements and frames without placing inside of them. Spoiler alert: hold space bar while dragging them.”